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Photo-Art

Today’s digital photographs offer much more than just the initial image they capture. In the digital darkroom the possibilities are endless and photographs represent just the beginning of what an image can become.

Often after I take a photograph, I process them through a series of my own customized digital presets that transform the photographic image into all forms of art – watercolor, line drawings, paintings and anything else I can do or think of with color, shape and digital’s boundless form and dimension.

The results often reveal an image reborn in a new an unforeseen way - with a charm and appeal all their own. They lend themselves to uses ranging from framed wall art to greeting cards. Sometimes a caption or a simple word adds a dimension that tells a story, makes us laugh or compliments the image to reveal messages implied but not spoken.

Please explore this photo-art – images from photographs – and see what you think.

Photo-Art Folder - every year that the berreies of our pyracantha bushes ripen, flocks of robins, joined by beautiful cedar waxwings, come and gorge on the berries. Here a waxwing pauses for a second to hold the berry in its beak before swallowing it whole.

Photo-Art - the National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon University, Portugal selected the original photo source for this line drawing for its Exhibit on the hypericum plant “One Plant - Three Perspectives”

Photo-Art - when turkeys meet deer there is usually not too much interaction but on this day there appeared to be a local point of focus that they shared in common. it turned out to be a screaching hawk unsuccessfully trying to capture a squirrel.

Photo-Art Folder - on hot days squirrels often lay flat to cool themselves and stay that way for up to an hour. This female finds the railing of our deck an apparent relief on a typical scorching July day in Alta Sierra, CA

Photo-Art - Robin Series: every fall robins gather in great numbers to feast on our ripening pyracantha berries. In numbers, disagrements about turf florish as is evident in this debate at the fountain.